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Southeastern United States--Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques.
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
- Floridae Americae provinciae recens & exactissima descriptio. [Frankfurt-am-Main, 1591], 368 x 459mm., folding engraved map, trimmed into the upper engraved border (as often), with reinstatement at right
Literature
Burden, Mapping of North America 79
Catalogue Note
Compiled by Le Moyne, who accompanied the second French attempt to establish a colony in the Southeast, on the River May. The settlement was destroyed by the Spanish, while a few Frenchmen, including Le Moyne, barely escaped with their lives. Le Moyne settled in London and his materials were posthumously acquired by Theodore de Bry, who published this influential map to accompany Le Moyne’s account of the unsuccessful colony.